What's the difference between regain and rejuvenate?

Regain


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A key way of regaining public trust will be reforming the system of remuneration as agreed by the G20.
  • (2) The patient presented in coma but regained full consciousness over the next six hours with supportive therapy.
  • (3) In Experiment 1 (summer), hens regained body weight more rapidly, returned to production faster, and had larger egg weights (Weeks 1 to 4) when fed the 16 or 13% CP molt diets than when fed the 10% CP molt diet.
  • (4) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
  • (5) Changes in mean portal venous and aortic blood glucose and lactate concentrations after an intragastric infusion of d-glucose to chronically catheterized rats (after regaining preoperative weight) were compared to those of acutely catheterized rats (1 h after catheter placement).
  • (6) These cells regained responsiveness to PDGF after an additional incubation period in PDGF-free medium.
  • (7) Obese women who regained weight after successful weight reduction (relapsers, n = 44); formerly obese, average-weight women who maintained weight loss (maintainers, n = 30); and women who had always remained at the same average, nonobese weight (control subjects, n = 34) were interviewed.
  • (8) Those around him assumed he was dead and he was put in a coffin, only to regain consciousness at the last moment.
  • (9) Microbial lipases exhibit a total cutoff in activity with as low a pressure as 2 MPa and a remarkable activity regain with depressurization.
  • (10) To study important epitopes on glycoprotein E2 of Sindbis virus, eight variants selected to be singly or multiply resistant to six neutralizing monoclonal antibodies reactive against E2, as well as four revertants which had regained sensitivity to neutralization, were sequenced throughout the E2 region.
  • (11) Doctors hope that injecting stem cells directly into the spine will help repair damaged nerve cells enough for paralysed people to regain some movement, but such treatments have yet to be tested in humans.
  • (12) The patient regained good movement at the interphalangeal joint of the thumb.
  • (13) One patient regained thermoregulatory sweat function and no patient's condition progressed to generalized autonomic failure.
  • (14) The process of recovery has three stages, in the first the patient is unconscious, in the second he or she regains full consciousness signified by the end of the period of post traumatic amnesia and continues to show evidence of rapid improvement in basic physical and mental functions.
  • (15) Upon dialysis to remove DTT from the reduced UK mixture, the disulfides reformed and enzymatic activity was regained.
  • (16) Despite intensive nutritional rehabilitation, patient did not regain the use of his lower limbs.
  • (17) A unique pattern for a carbohydrate antigen is displayed by cells of the primitive streak; antigenicity is lost with de-epithelialisation and ingression, but is regained in a pericellular distribution on the mesoderm cells that emerge from the primitive streak.
  • (18) Out of 10 patients, eight treated by early mobilization regained full shoulder function within 1 year.
  • (19) The aged erythrocytes incubated in a mixture of adenine and inosine markedly regained their ATP levels, and also showed a marked transformation from spiked spherocytes to normal discocytes.
  • (20) She wanted the department to give her reporters better access to Helmand province, where British troops were fighting and dying as they battled to regain control.

Rejuvenate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To render young again.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similar infusions of young blood rejuvenated muscle tissue in older mice, boosting their strength and exercise endurance, according to another paper in Science.
  • (2) It’s not just the people who want a cleaner country; China’s leaders too have a vision for national rejuvenation — the “China dream”.
  • (3) "We are seeing huge changes, and we urgently need to rejuvenate the UK's energy infrastructure.
  • (4) Five years ago, as Brazilian waxes became more common, demand for labial plastic surgery increased, then for "vaginal rejuvenation", perhaps the creepiest of the rejuvenations.
  • (5) Incubation with inosine alone restored ATP levels of the aged erythrocytes to some extent, but did not result in morphological rejuvenation.
  • (6) The Nobel Laureate and ex-director of Fermilab, Leon Lederman, described superconductivity as "the elixir to rejuvenate accelerators and open new vistas to the future".
  • (7) The 50-year-old former record company assistant, who began his career at EMI, has delivered ratings success by rejuvenating the talent show format.
  • (8) In 1889 Brown-Séquard claimed that injections of testicular extract rejuvenated the elderly, and in 1893 he introduced organotherapy.
  • (9) Circulating levels of FSH, LH, prolactin (Prl), estradiol (E), and progesterone (P) were determined by RIA in four intact and four monkeys luteectomized (CLX) at parturition in order to a) characterize the patterns of these hormones during the puerperium, and b) examine a possible inhibitory role of the "rejuvenated" corpus luteum (CL) on the resumption of follicle growth post partum.
  • (10) Analysts were somewhat surprised that AOL has found a buyer because they believed Bebo would require large investment to rejuvenate and because it only has a meaningful presence in the UK & Ireland.
  • (11) In our experience, this technique offers certain advantages and has fewer complications than subperiosteal lifting, allowing natural and harmonious rejuvenation of the upper two-thirds of the face, leaving no sequelae other than the coronal scar which is concealed in the scalp.
  • (12) Red cells stored in SAGM medium for 42 days at +4 degrees C were rejuvenated by bicarbonate, pyruvate and adenosine.
  • (13) Although all three studies were done in mice, researchers believe a similar rejuvenating therapy should work in humans.
  • (14) They more often want to create great educational opportunities for all students but the system fails them by not allowing them to refresh, reinvigorate, rejuvenate and revitalise themselves and their teaching materials in meaningful ways.
  • (15) The advantages of proliferation as a means of repair are described and it is proposed that cell proliferation is required for full rejuvenation.
  • (16) She will also go head to head with another ITV export, James Goldston, who has been credited with rejuvenating ABC's Good Morning America, which has eclipsed NBC's Today from its longstanding position at number one in the breakfast ratings war.
  • (17) It would have been exceedingly harsh on the rejuvenated home team.
  • (18) He declared that he alone had the strength to secure the homeland and rejuvenate the economy in a 75-minute speech that pushed familiar buttons.
  • (19) This theory assumes that aging is due to the accumulation of multiple forms of molecular damage and that rejuvenation is due to repair.
  • (20) Submalar augmentation is a new approach that effectively deals with many of the problems encountered in midfacial rejuvenation.